Panerai Leather Strap Luminor 26/26 Sonora Light Tan

Description

About the Leather:  I created this beige 47mm Panerai strap 100% by hand, and hand stitched it as with all of my straps.  An awesome chrome tanned leather with a light brown/tan color and a distressed finish.  This leather shows a lot of character with scuff marks, fat lines and other visible signs of life.  The tone is a medium sandstone color with a matte almost concrete style texture.  The stitching is light beige, perfectly matching the strap.  Additionally, this awesome strap is of a medium-soft rigidity.

I designed this strap to feature one floating keeper and one fixed.  A variety of buckle types are available on the drop down menu.  I photographed the watch with a brushed trapezoidal buckle for demonstration purposes.  This beige 47mm Panerai strap works with a wide variety of PAM cases and dial combinations. Pictured above, you may see this awesome handmade strap on the Panerai Luminor PAM00372.

Measurements:  This strap is 26/26, with a thickness of ~4mm.

What is Included:  Watch strap (top, bottom), one wooden gift box as pictured.

To view more oil tanned 26mm straps, click here.

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Additional Information:  For each Panerai model, I have a different design philosophy regarding straps. For the 47mm Luminor series case, as well as the Radiomir 1940 and the Submersible, my concept revolves around thickness and symmetry. When I create unique straps for the 47mm series cases, I take into account the overall thickness and temper of the leather that I am working with; more so than with Radiomir or even 44mm Luminor cases.

The 47mm Panerai case ships with a 26mm width strap. There is no escaping the mass of such a case and strap combination. My designs for this case take into account several features of the 47mm cases including the arches, curves, angles, and degrees of slope of not just the case, but the buckle as well. Instead of step-in away from or trying to minimize the bulk of the case, my goal is to embrace it. To reflect this, I work with thick leathers and make the straps for this model a minimum of 5.0mm thick on average.

Additionally, I like the make the strap keepers nice and wide. I box stitch most 47mm Panerai straps for extra strength. On rare occasions, I may employ open ended stitching. 47mm Panerai custom straps tend to be 5.0mm thick or greater. I usually utilize vintage style stainless pin buckles that are sewn in place. These pin buckles work especially well for straps that are thicker. Vintage style Panerai pin buckles also allow for more narrow holes for the buckle. Whats more, for these 26mm wide straps I mostly employ thicker thread with a larger margin in the stitching. I adjust spacing between stitches to be slightly wider than on my 44mm or Radiomir straps.

The entire process is performed by hand without templates or machines of any sort. I use the absolute basic tools, the same tools that I used as a boot maker for nearly two decades. As a result of the hand made nature of these straps, no two are identical.